English Literature
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english_2030_fiction_faulkner.pptShort Fiction
English
2030
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William
Faulkner
• Twenty novels
• 125 short stories
• Six books of poetry
• Pulitzer Prizes for fiction: 1955, 1963
• Nobel Prize for Literature, 1949
• National Book Awards: 1951, 1955
1897-1962
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“…the problems of the human heart in conflict with
itself … alone can make good writing because only
that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat.”
From the 1950 Nobel Prize acceptance speech
Faulkner’s
portable
Underwood
typewriter, his writing tool of choice, just as he left it in his
study at Rowan Oak,
his home in Oxford, Mississippi
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Yoknapatawpha
County
Faulkner’s fictional county is populated with families whose names recur throughout his stories and novels.
The careful Faulkner student can actually map the family trees of these individuals simply by reading the total of his fiction.
Yoknapatawpha is derived from two Chickasaw Indian words: Yocona and petopha. Faulkner claimed the compound word he created means “water flowing slow through the flatland.” His county figures prominently in seventeen novels.
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